Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Difference between revisions

After destroying the Leviathan of Bryyo, Samus returns to her Gunship and receives her next orders from Unit 242. 242 explains how a very similar epidemic has struck the Planet Elysia, and instructs Samus to solve the situation. However, the energy shield that protects the Leviathan is indestructible, so her main objective is to deliver the Phazon vaccine to an Aurora Unit that has been inputted on the Planet, [[Aurora Unit 217|217]]. Elysia is an uninhabitable planet due to its highly radioactive surface, although a large city created by the [[Chozo]] was built and floats above the clouds, known as [[SkyTown]].<ref name=Creators>{{cite|I am Elysian, descendant of both the Chozo and the First. I am facing the last moments of my life and transferring my memory to the data pod. In a way, our chronicle begins nearly 1500 years ago. That was when our noble creators, the Chozo, began to build that which would become our home. A place of exploration and knowledge, floating in the clouds of planet Elysia, a fitting home for its great Chozo builders. They built many linked, hovering pods; in time they formed a net in the skies across the globe, instruments peering out in all directions, studying the cosmos. We did not exist then, only the Chozo walked these hallowed halls. To the distant stars they looked, and a great many things they discovered - including that which would later spell grim disaster for all.|[[SkyTown Data#Creators|SkyTown Data-Creators]]|Metroid Prime 3: Corruption}}</ref> The city is inhabited by a mechanical race of robot scientists, known as [[Elysian|Elysians]], who were created by the Chozo to further maintain the SkyTown facility and monitor the stars to gain the knowledge that the bird race could not discover.<ref name=Creators/> <ref name=Alone>{{cite|In the year 400 of Elysian reckoning, the time for our Chozo creators to leave had arrived. To us they entrusted the station and its purpose. We were to stand vigil and watch over the station until the time when others seeking knowledge and enlightenment arrived. With their departure came one last request from the Chozo Searcher - to continue exploring the skies for the answers to the mysterious planet. We gave her our word and resumed her tireless search. Day after day we hunted for the answers she desperately sought, but our efforts yielded nothing. We failed.|[[SkyTown Data#Alone|SkyTown Data-Alone]]|Metroid Prime 3: Corruption}}</ref> By the time Samus lands on SkyTown, over fifty percent of the facility's original design was destroyed and gone, a result of the Leviathan hurtling towards the Planet. <ref name=Phazon>{{cite|One week after we had lost communication with the Aurora Unit, we witnessed the living planet strike again. It sent forth several stellar objects, one aimed directly for us. It streaked through the clouds of Elysia, destroying a large portion of our home, ultimately striking the distant core below. Soon our sensors detected the presence of strange energy. Our readings matched with the Federation's data-this was the same toxin that corrupted countless other planets and our creators' world-the galactic scourge called Phazon.|[[SkyTown Data#Phazon|SkyTown Data-Phazon]]|Metroid Prime 3: Corruption}}</ref> She infiltrates the ziplines and pods of the facility and finally meets up with Aurora Unit 217, Corrupted by Phazon. Samus injects the vaccine into the Unit and connects it to the Main Federation Network, but a corrupted Ghor appears as if out of nowhere and severs the cables that connect 217 to the Network. As Samus chases after him, she receives ship status alerts that explain that heavy damage is being dealt to her Gunship. She has no choice but to fight Ghor to save her ship and the Aurora Unit, as well as acquire his [[Plasma Beam]] to mend the Network wires that were disconnected. After restoring the Aurora Unit, Samus sets off to locate three components to a [[Theronian Bomb]], a nuclear device that can be used to destroy the Leviathan's shield and allow access to the Seed. She locates a Space Pirate facility on SkyTown and infiltrates it, acquiring the [[Ship Grapple Beam]] that can carry the enormous pieces of the device. However, before she can acquire the top if the bomb, she must first return to Bryyo and locate a secret and unexpected Ice area that can be accessed by a warp terminal. By doing so, she acquires the [[Screw Attack]] and once again sets off for SkyTown to gain access to the component.

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Samus acquires the first bomb component by defeating a Berserker Lord in the Turbine Chamber. She then sets off to locate the [[Seeker Missile]], which is required to break a lock that holds the second bomb component, consisting of wires that must be hit with simultaneous blasts. The upgrade is found in the [[Xenoresearch Labs]], which hold [[Metroid (species)|Phazon Metroids]] that were bred by the Space Pirates to once again use as biological weapons. When Samus obtains the Seeker Missile Launcher, she must turn off the power to the Labs to break the stasis chamber that holds it. The power outage weakens the Metroid cells and allows them to escape and pursue Samus through the maze-like corridors. While evading the Metroids and passing by the strewn bodies of Space Pirates, Samus manages to escape from the Labs and collect the bomb component. She acquires the third and final piece and fits them all together on her ship. She implants the bomb onto the Spire Dock as Aurora Unit 217 moves the entire SkyTown facility into position over the Leviathan. The Spire Dock then moves by its own with the Theronian Bomb to detonate upon impact on the shield. As Samus, alone on the Spire, protects the Spire from harm, a large Space Pirate force ambushes her and tries to destroy the Spire. Samus must defeat the Troopers that have breached the Spire for her own protection, as well as stop the [[Space Pirate Assault Skiff|Space Pirate Assault Skiffs]] from bombarding and destroying the Spire as well as the only chance of gaining access to the Seed. Samus bravely resists the force and defeats the entire squadron without any additional support. The Dock is now in place and she sets an [[Escape Pod]] to fly her back to SkyTown. However, right as she activates the Pod, it malfunctions and Samus must repair the severed cables that abide in the maintenance shaft underneath it. She successfully fixes the Pod just in the nick of time and soars back to the facility, the Bomb detonating behind her in an enormous explosion. This allows Samus to gain access to the Seed. When she does, she encounters the Corrupted Elysian [[Helios]], who sees her as a threat and engages with her in combat. Samus defeats the mechanoid and overloads the Seed, saving the Planet and the [[Federation Solar System]] from the Phazon threat once and for all.

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